I have recently gone through this exercise. I have 7 temperature probes in my boiler and column and had initially designed on standard PT100's with 4-20mA PUKS and this all feeding into my PLC.
With peer review it was suggested to not bugger around and rather do it properly with Ex requirements. The cost of this is obviously huge especially if you consider additional level switches and pressure transmitters also both with Ex requirements.
So for temperature, I have used Ex rated 4-20mA PUKS as well as Ex rated 4-20mA isolation barriers. In hind sight I wish I had gone the route as Silk has mentioned, RTD's with Ex isolation barriers.
But what gets me is that not everyone does this. Some still suppliers offer this as an optional extra.